We wait for an answer. And wait. And wait.
It is now well over 24 hours since we posed a simple question to the office of the mayor of London. Thus far, no answer. He has been busy, appearing on the radio and buying water cannon. But it was a simple question, arising from a reader's email. "During a Healthy Schools London event at City Hall a group of school children performed a dance for Boris Johnson," it said. "The dance ended with the group saluting him with one hand raised. He was heard to say, 'What is this, Nuremberg?'" Is this true, we asked the mayor's officials. And then we asked again. And again. Our source apparently heard it clearly, but still we thought to give the jokey mayor the benefit of the doubt. No answer. Disappointing. At this rate folk will think it must be true.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 1 hour ago.
It is now well over 24 hours since we posed a simple question to the office of the mayor of London. Thus far, no answer. He has been busy, appearing on the radio and buying water cannon. But it was a simple question, arising from a reader's email. "During a Healthy Schools London event at City Hall a group of school children performed a dance for Boris Johnson," it said. "The dance ended with the group saluting him with one hand raised. He was heard to say, 'What is this, Nuremberg?'" Is this true, we asked the mayor's officials. And then we asked again. And again. Our source apparently heard it clearly, but still we thought to give the jokey mayor the benefit of the doubt. No answer. Disappointing. At this rate folk will think it must be true.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 1 hour ago.
